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Monthly Archives: January 2005
Life Indeed
Day two of work was interesting. I drafted my first set of interrogatories and requests for production (discovery tools). This was a little tricky though because we didn’t have the complaints from the various parties that were suing us, so I had to play some guessing games with the questions bank. There’s no limit on how many interrogatories you can propound in Washington; that’s a little scary…
I’ve been adding to my 1:400 airline collection (happily I might add!). I’m planning to throw together some rudimentary page to show off the various pieces in my collection… maybe write up a quick review with comparisons to the actual aircraft. How’s that for interaction? I never thought I’d hear myself say (type) this, but I wish there wasn’t so much choice out there when it comes to models. I generally know which manufacturers are considered the “higher quality” brands, but you never know if one company’s mould for a certain aircraft is better than the other’s… ah a collector’s life indeed.
After work I did some “other” work on my law review article. Second drafts are due in a week! I’ve got some cleaning up on it to do, but I think I can handle it… ah a law students’ life indeed.
Thankfully my schedule is not so brutal this year (by that, I mean the times I have class and break are pretty reasonable). I have a 2-hour seminar that meets on Thursday evenings, so really for most of the week it feels like I only have three classes. That’s nice, but of course I always end up filling the blocks of time with work.
And now… state and local court rules for a motion for partial summary judgment on the plaintiff’s retaliation claim… no pretext yo!
Bring Back Hot Meals
I’m thrilled to learn about United’s new transcontinental premium service, and I view its existence as partial vindication of my own personal theory that LCCs, though innovative, are ultimately the result of a short term market crisis that, upon recovery, will deliver victory to the legacy carriers.
Everyone loves surfing the travel websites looking for the best fare. It makes you feel like a responsible, money-saving consumer, wielding all the weapons the information superhighway has given you to beat the big, evil corpoations from stealing your money. But when you really think about it, what are you getting? You’re getting pretezels. You’re getting cramped into airplanes with little, if any, meaningful service. Yes, you’re saving money, but don’t the flights just reek of cost-cutting?
In the end, I’ve always believed that what the cusotomer ultimately wants is the service. They want an airline that gets them to where they want, and makes it worth their money. I believe that in the short run, people are willing to sacrifice creature-comforts; but when the legacy carriers become profitable again, will people still flock to Frontier for a bag of pretzels, or bother fighting with fellow passengers for a seat on Southwest when you can get a hot meal on a legacy carrier?
Yeah, there are a lot of flaws in my arguments. Still, service goes a long way. A restructured, profitable, legacy carrier, will have more to offer than a low-cost, “let’s try and nudge Delta or Northwest out of the market” airline that really, in the end, is only about the pretzels.
Posted in Aviation
Shields Up!
Well, within 20 minutes of installing mt-blacklist and enabling unregistered commenting, mt-blacklist ensnared its first comment spam. Take that, you varmint!
So, it appears there may be some validity to the accusation that I’ve “broken hockey.” Last night, I went to a hockey game with the law review folk. However, I missed the first 20 minutes of the game because I had to wait outside of Key Arena so I could give Bob his ticket. After that, we went in, and proceeded to watch 45 minutes of restraint, and heavy referee moderation.
Apparently, though, during the initial face-off, the second the puck hit the ice, the gloves flew off and the players were throwing blows left and right. This, of course, I missed as I was outside the arena.
I’m sorry!
Reflections
In many ways, I’m the perfect candidate for making New Year’s resolutions. There are a lot of things about myself that I consider flaws, or things I just don’t like about my personality, that I constantly think about changing. I’m the perfect example of someone who often (read: always) fails to follow his own advice. I always recognize when I make choices that I know one day I need to change, but for whatever reason, at this point in my life, I simply feel as though I lack the will power to make those changes. I suppose half of the battle is acknowledging that you need to make changes, but unfortunately that’s the easy part. Can I just catalogue this under “development”?
Suddenly all the things that were just after thoughts for four years in college are now front and center in the life of Jonathan. When you’re growing up, what you learn and what you’re exposed to is a burden that rest on those who care for you; you don’t have to make decisions like that for yourself, necessarily. Later in life, it’s an entirely different ball game. Knowledge is no longer something that people give to you, but something you must actively seek out. That means you have to learn not only the knowledge, but why that knowledge is important to you.
This is probably the greatest challenge I’m facing in life right now; learning how to make the decisions about what I choose to learn to enrich my life. What more can I do?
Posted in Life happens